Unruh Effect

It should come as no surprise that Einsturzende Neubauten is a huge influence on how we as Skull Servant work - their repurposing of metal throughout their career to make noise at first, and now as instruments in their industrial approach to writing songs. We too like what they've done, and take it as great influence on the things we do. In every piece we work on, develop, and ultimately destroy, we want to have this element of percussion, preferrably with found objects.

N.U. Unruh takes us through his storage, which only serves to whet my appetite when it comes to percussion. I want one of those mallet-like hammers, I want to meet him and scrounge with him, banging on every object from here to the East End. Much respect is due, and this clip above certainly make absorb every scrap (pardon the pun) of the development process that Unruh takes to get his sounds.

Video Evidence of Communique #3

From our show where we performed, then did a brief collaboration with Snake Charmer. Mr. Woodford took some great photos. Thanks Mike, we owe you a beer.I ended up smashing my left foot smashing the the shopping cart. Big thanks for Column of Heaven asking us to play, Snake Charmer for indulging our wacky ideas.

We're working on a lathe, the Watching 7" and some other projects (maybe another cassette?). Maybe a show as the full band, and some other art stuff (a video perhaps). Keep an eye out for our activities.

Fall Events

People must like us, or need us to clear rooms because we keep playing to people. I believe our good friends in Snake Charmer and us are going to do something brilliant, or something (as our good friend Imants used to say) utter shit together. I think it'll be cool, but we'll see how it all turns out. If you can't make it I'll be recording the audience again with our set as background music.  

Speaking of surveillance, here's the Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/281674118640997/

Been working on getting gear together to do the Watching Dub in the proper way. Think it'll end up being a flexi of some sort. All those early Jamaican Dub records were subject to shoddy presses (probably due to record manufacturers having a stranglehold on the equipment and resources to do "good" work) so a flexi pays proper homage to what they did in the 70's.   

We still want to do an alley show, but the soonest we can do it is October... maybe a Hallowe'en thing? I like the sounds of that...

Also, the Watching 7" EP is stalled, buy a tape or a button or something so we can afford to start working on it again. It's ready for the presses, just need a down payment while unemployment hinders our progress.

If you like bands, you might like Water Torture.

Skull Servant NE/SE set July 2 2013

July 2 Show

So we're planning on bringing out the noise and omitting the funk (unless that's our smell) on July 2nd for a stacked noise bill featuring:

NOISE NOMADS (Load Records, RRR)
http://bonescraperrecordings.wordpress.com/ 

BELLTONE SUICIDE (Feedingtube Records)
http://youtu.be/K2Dag7TWrvU 

with support from
ISOLATION ORDER (London, ON) http://youtu.be/5N5JxSNNmAA
FOSSILS (Hamilton) http://www.youtube.com/fossilsband
and us (Skull Servant NE/SE).

9PM, $5

Yes, the punks in us might want to see Infa Riot down the road, but really, you aren't going to see anything this good in this area this year.

Post First Show Blues

So to remedy the post first show blues, we're doing a second noise show. Once all the details are finalized, you gentle reader will be appraised of all the details. 

Also, our tape is available at our newfangled Skull Servant shop. You'd think that we would be ecstatic about the Edward Snowden leaks, and Prism, unfortunately, it's just the truth. The only way to foul up the system of surveillance that we live in is to either opt out of the Internet (unlikely to happen) or to purposefully obfuscate the messages and identities of who we are. Make their data worthless, or so onerous to decode what is truthful (and really what is the truth?) and what is manipulation. That's part of why we hide our identities when we play, as a symbolic gesture as to retain privately who we are. It's not a secret who we are, especially in our own communities and cities, but it's a fleeting, ultimately futile gesture of how things should be. Private when we want to; public when we want to.  

Skull Servant NE/SE set May 15, 2013